Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
SimonJack Half a dozen versions of "Brewster's Millions" had been made, dating back into the silent era, before this 1985 film. The story is based on a 1902 novel by George B. McCutcheon. This movie, with Richard Pryor and John Candy stacks up well with the other films. It's updated ($30 million in 1985 versus $1 million in 1945), with prices, costs and other things being quite different. It has some novel twists and pokes fun at New York politics. So, it succeeds overall. Richard Pryor is very good as Monty Brewster, and most others of the cast give very good performances. But, John Candy stands out as Spike Nolan. He's a delight to watch with his frustration over Monty's not wanting to invest a little of his many millions for the future. The two have just come from nowheresville, and Spike re all too well that they could wind up back there. So, every time Monty hires someone for a ludicrous salary, Spike wants it to be half or less. Except for some sparse vulgar language, this film is generally clean. The baseball scenes with Monty on the pitcher's mound and Spike behind the plate are hilarious.
SnoopyStyle Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor) pitches minor league ball in Hackensack, New Jersey with his loudmouthed catcher best friend Spike Nolan (John Candy). They get thrown in jail after a bar fight. Charley Pegler (Jerry Orbach) let the boys go from the team. J.B. Donaldo (Joe Grifasi) bails them out. Brewster thinks he's a scout calling them up to the big league but instead he brings them to a reading of a Will. Brewster is the sole heir. Rupert Horn (Hume Cronyn) has left him $300 million but only if he can spend $30 million in 30 days. He cannot own any assets at the end and he can't tell anybody. If he fails, the trustees' firm would gain control of the money. Angela Drake (Lonette McKee) is a paralegal from the firm assigned to keep track of the money. Warren Cox (Stephen Collins) is her boyfriend also from the firm. Drake doesn't know the real deal but Cox is eventually let in on the deal and convinced to sabotage Brewster's efforts. What seems easy at first turns out to be much harder to do.I love both John Candy and Richard Pryor. Pryor smooths out his rough edges to play in this PG movie. It's a bland comedy without any big laughs. Director Walter Hill just doesn't have the comedic skills to maximize his leading comedians. I still like the characters. Pryor is straight-jacketed here. John Candy is trying his best. It's a sweet movie. It's just not that funny.
Lee Eisenberg Believe it or not, "Brewster's Millions", in which Richard Pryor plays a guy who has to spend $30 million in 30 days so that he can inherit $300 million from his late uncle (Hume Cronyn) but can't tell anyone the second part, is based on a 1902 novel. And a funny adaptation it is! Pryor plays a baseball player who prefers partying with his buddy (John Candy). Once it's time for him to start spending, he goes all out. I will say that this isn't the best work for either of them, but Walter Hill's movie definitely elicits its share of laughs. The best part is Brewster's mayoral campaign: he's the most truthful candidate of all time (or at least the most realistic).The executives who formally give Brewster the money reminded me very much of the Dukes in "Trading Places". As it is, one of them is played by a man who seems to have spent much of his career playing bombastic executives: David White, aka Larry Tate on "Bewitched". He went from playing an executive in "The Apartment", to playing the boss of a man married to a witch, to playing an executive who gives $30 million to a rule-trashing cool dude. What a country indeed! Anyway, the movie is at once a parable about profligacy and also just a plain old fun comedy. Brewster is a guy who, quite simply, knows how to party. Like I said, it's not the funniest movie ever, but you definitely get some laughs out of it.
welshNick One of the many adaptations of the famous novel and perhaps the best. Monty Brewster, played superbly by Richard Pryor, gets into a fight after pitching in a little league baseball game. When in court a man bails him out and takes him to a firm of ants where he finds out a very rich relative has died. However, in order to inherit 300 million dollars he has to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days and have nothing to show for it. This is of course far more difficult than it looks. The fun really starts as he tries to spend it and finds it to be a lot harder than it sounds. The partners at the ing firm want him to fail so they can get their hands on the money and set a trap for him. I won't ruin the end but I always watch this when it is on and always laugh. Excellent entertainment.
